# Friedrich Bergius

> He won a Nobel Prize for turning coal into gasoline — then spent the war working for IG Farben, and the peace running from the consequences.

*German chemist (1884–1949)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1884-10-11
- **Died:** 1949-03-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was born on 11 October 1884 in Germany and trained as a chemist at a time when the country was desperate for fuel independence. He developed the Bergius process, a method for synthesizing liquid fuel from coal using high-pressure chemistry, and in 1931 shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carl Bosch for pioneering chemical high-pressure methods. During World War II he worked with IG Farben, the industrial conglomerate later notorious for its role in the Nazi war effort. When the war ended, his citizenship came under scrutiny, and rather than face whatever reckoning awaited him in Europe, he fled to Argentina, where he served as an adviser to the Ministry of Industry until his death on 30 March 1949.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Germany, #Europe, #20th Century

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